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Pearson Digital Learning: NovaNET 2004.


www.pearsondigital.com Internet Internet

Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the
, $1,000 to $1,500/ simultaneous user license

The latest version of this online standards-based curriculum and assessment system for grades 6-12 includes 79 new chemistry lessons and 50 multimedia-enhanced math and language arts language arts
pl.n.
The subjects, including reading, spelling, and composition, aimed at developing reading and writing skills, usually taught in elementary and secondary school.
 lessons. The system also has a new interface designed to make learning more engaging.

The NovaNet A satellite-based network for educational services created by the Education Research Lab of the University of Illinois. It includes over 10,000 hours of lesson material from third grade to post graduate work in over a hundred subject areas.  chemistry curriculum--which teaches through simulated experiments, problem sets, animations and videos--now constitutes a full high school chemistry course. The 26 enhanced language arts lessons address reading comprehension Reading comprehension can be defined as the level of understanding of a passage or text. For normal reading rates (around 200-220 words per minute) an acceptable level of comprehension is above 75%. , grammar and usage, reference, spelling and vocabulary. The 24 enhanced math lessons focus on polynomials, factoring, binomials multiplications, graphing and equations.

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